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Soon 20 bits won't be enough, either, and every Unicode program out there will break :-(


Unicode is 21 bits wide. And there's lots of space left. Heck, Emoji still make up very little of the total encoded characters, compared to “normal” human writing systems. (And I'd argue that emoji are by now a normal addition to writing, considering how many people use them daily and can be glad to have them interoperable across different platforms, carriers, and devices. Something that hasn't been that way previously.)




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